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fairdinato

Posted 19 April 2006 - 10:24 AM

fairdinato

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I don't think I see it there. I see (E:) which is why portable hard drive.. C: which is what got reformated.. D: which is my docuemnts and a volume called PQSERVICE.. No idea what this is but it says EISA Configuration)

What exactly do I look for in the bios? cos I've checked before and it came up with

dsenette

Posted 19 April 2006 - 10:29 AM

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does "PQSERVICE" have a drive letter? does it have an icon that looks like cdrom? is there a cd in the drive currently? (i'm gonna assume that that is your recovery drive as it would have a drive letter if it were a disk drive but..)

The popular CDGONE patch. CD drives may vanish in Windows Explorer, Device Manager, etc. if a third-party CD-burning package has been uninstalled and Registry references for some code modules aren?t removed successfully. This patch and a reboot usually will restore the missing drives. Any third party package still required will then have to be re-installed.

dsenette

Posted 19 April 2006 - 11:07 AM

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boot into the bios and look for a setting called "quick boot" or "quiet boot" or something to that nature...and turn that off...then see if you can see where it detects the drive during post (if it's not detecting the drive in bios or through post...it's got a good chance of being dead)